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Data Scientist roles qualify for H-1B1 Singapore visa sponsorship under the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, with no lottery and a 5,400-visa annual cap that has never been exhausted. Employers file the Labor Condition Application directly with DOL, and you apply at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore, bypassing USCIS entirely.
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What is the opportunity?
In this role as a Lead Data Scientist you will analyze, design and implement data science / machine learning solutions using RBC’s enterprise suite of analytics tools. USWM Applied AI group specializes in taking full advantage of large data sets to explore and discover new insights that would have not been possible with traditional analytics. Leveraging leading edge technologies and capabilities, the group applies machine learning and statistical modelling techniques to help RBC understand the changing business environment, discover new growth opportunities and determine where business improvements can be made.
This is a senior individual contributor role on a greenfield Applied AI squad. You will own the full data science lifecycle — from problem framing and exploratory analysis through model development, evaluation, and production performance. You'll work alongside AI engineers and MLOps to bring models and data-driven features into real financial services workflows. This isn't a notebook-and-dashboard role: you write production Python, collaborate closely with engineering, and take clear ownership of model quality and business outcomes. Financial domain knowledge, statistical rigor, and the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into solvable ML problems are equally important as technical depth.
What will you do?
- Collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders to understand business objectives/opportunities and problem statements in order to provide solutions that align to business needs that are actionable with a tangible outcome
- Frame ambiguous business problems into well-defined ML and AI problem statements with measurable success criteria.
- Own end-to-end model development — feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production handoff.
- Build and evaluate LLM-augmented workflows — combining classical ML signals with generative AI where appropriate
- Prepare and transform data (structured/non-structured)
- Design and maintain offline and online evaluation frameworks — ensuring model quality before and after deployment
- Prepare, integrate large and varied datasets and implement statistical and ML models using Python and R.
- Leverage visualization tools/packages to story-tell and to convey data-driven insights with actionable recommendations to key stakeholders
- Quickly learn new methods, tools and technologies presented in research communities to implement, adapt and innovate
- Effectively communicate findings to business partners and executives.
- Developing predictive data models, quantitative analyses and visualization of targeted, big data sources.
- Lead and mentor junior Data Scientists throughout the ML lifecycle.
- Monitor production models for drift and performance. Build dashboards and communicate insights.
- Document experiments and support AI governance. Present findings to technical and business stakeholders.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Master’s in computer science or PHD in Computer Science with Specialization in Data Science, Mathematics & Statistics.
- 10+ years total IT experience with 3+ years building and deploying ML models in production environments — not just notebooks
- Experience with model evaluation rigor — holdout sets, cross-validation, leakage prevention, business metric alignment
- Practical understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations — knows when to use generative AI vs. classical ML vs. deterministic rules
- Experience building or evaluating RAG pipelines or LLM-augmented analytics workflows — even if not the primary architect
- Comfortable working within an enterprise LLM gateway environment — model routing, cost awareness, token management
- Worked in a regulated or compliance-sensitive environment — model documentation, auditability, and explainability requirements
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, time management and organizational skills.
- Can distinguish when a problem needs ML vs. a simpler rule-based approach — avoids over-engineering
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks — RAGAS, DeepEval, LLM-as-judge, or equivalent golden dataset approaches.
- Understands hallucination risks and validation strategies for LLM outputs used in business-critical decisions.
- Comfortable working within an enterprise LLM gateway environment — model routing, cost awareness, token management.
- Experience in programming, scripting languages and data visualization.
Nice to have:
- Financial services domain — wealth management, portfolio analytics, risk scoring, client segmentation, or fraud detection experience.
- Experience with NLP pipelines for financial document understanding, summarization, or entity extraction.
- Familiarity with A/B testing and causal inference for evaluating model interventions in production.
- Databricks or Snowflake ML for large-scale feature computation and model training
- Exposure to graph-based analytics or network analysis for relationship modeling
- MLflow, Weights & Biases, or equivalent for experiment tracking and model registry
- Familiar with a Linux environment and shell scripting.
- Familiar with data extract, transform, and load processes with a variety of data types.
What's in it for you:
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program include competitive compensation and flexible benefits, such as 401(k) program with company-matching contributions, health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and paid-time off.
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to do challenging work.
- Opportunities to build close relationships with clients.
The expected salary range for this particular position is $100,000 - $170,000, depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.
You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.
RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:
- Drives RBC’s high-performance culture
- Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals
- Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value
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Job Skills
Actuarial Modeling, Big Data Management, Commercial Acumen, Data Mining, Data Science, Decision Making, Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Predictive Analytics, Python (Programming Language)
Additional Job Details
Address: 250 NICOLLET MALL:MINNEAPOLIS
City: Minneapolis
Country: United States of America
Work hours/week: 40
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2026-08-07
Application Deadline: 2026-08-28
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
Our Employment Opportunities
At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
Join our Talent Community
Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you.
Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.
Job Description
What is the opportunity?
In this role as a Lead Data Scientist you will analyze, design and implement data science / machine learning solutions using RBC’s enterprise suite of analytics tools. USWM Applied AI group specializes in taking full advantage of large data sets to explore and discover new insights that would have not been possible with traditional analytics. Leveraging leading edge technologies and capabilities, the group applies machine learning and statistical modelling techniques to help RBC understand the changing business environment, discover new growth opportunities and determine where business improvements can be made.
This is a senior individual contributor role on a greenfield Applied AI squad. You will own the full data science lifecycle — from problem framing and exploratory analysis through model development, evaluation, and production performance. You'll work alongside AI engineers and MLOps to bring models and data-driven features into real financial services workflows. This isn't a notebook-and-dashboard role: you write production Python, collaborate closely with engineering, and take clear ownership of model quality and business outcomes. Financial domain knowledge, statistical rigor, and the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into solvable ML problems are equally important as technical depth.
What will you do?
- Collaborate with key business partners and stakeholders to understand business objectives/opportunities and problem statements in order to provide solutions that align to business needs that are actionable with a tangible outcome
- Frame ambiguous business problems into well-defined ML and AI problem statements with measurable success criteria.
- Own end-to-end model development — feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production handoff.
- Build and evaluate LLM-augmented workflows — combining classical ML signals with generative AI where appropriate
- Prepare and transform data (structured/non-structured)
- Design and maintain offline and online evaluation frameworks — ensuring model quality before and after deployment
- Prepare, integrate large and varied datasets and implement statistical and ML models using Python and R.
- Leverage visualization tools/packages to story-tell and to convey data-driven insights with actionable recommendations to key stakeholders
- Quickly learn new methods, tools and technologies presented in research communities to implement, adapt and innovate
- Effectively communicate findings to business partners and executives.
- Developing predictive data models, quantitative analyses and visualization of targeted, big data sources.
- Lead and mentor junior Data Scientists throughout the ML lifecycle.
- Monitor production models for drift and performance. Build dashboards and communicate insights.
- Document experiments and support AI governance. Present findings to technical and business stakeholders.
What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
- Master’s in computer science or PHD in Computer Science with Specialization in Data Science, Mathematics & Statistics.
- 10+ years total IT experience with 3+ years building and deploying ML models in production environments — not just notebooks
- Experience with model evaluation rigor — holdout sets, cross-validation, leakage prevention, business metric alignment
- Practical understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations — knows when to use generative AI vs. classical ML vs. deterministic rules
- Experience building or evaluating RAG pipelines or LLM-augmented analytics workflows — even if not the primary architect
- Comfortable working within an enterprise LLM gateway environment — model routing, cost awareness, token management
- Worked in a regulated or compliance-sensitive environment — model documentation, auditability, and explainability requirements
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, time management and organizational skills.
- Can distinguish when a problem needs ML vs. a simpler rule-based approach — avoids over-engineering
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation frameworks — RAGAS, DeepEval, LLM-as-judge, or equivalent golden dataset approaches.
- Understands hallucination risks and validation strategies for LLM outputs used in business-critical decisions.
- Comfortable working within an enterprise LLM gateway environment — model routing, cost awareness, token management.
- Experience in programming, scripting languages and data visualization.
Nice to have:
- Financial services domain — wealth management, portfolio analytics, risk scoring, client segmentation, or fraud detection experience.
- Experience with NLP pipelines for financial document understanding, summarization, or entity extraction.
- Familiarity with A/B testing and causal inference for evaluating model interventions in production.
- Databricks or Snowflake ML for large-scale feature computation and model training
- Exposure to graph-based analytics or network analysis for relationship modeling
- MLflow, Weights & Biases, or equivalent for experiment tracking and model registry
- Familiar with a Linux environment and shell scripting.
- Familiar with data extract, transform, and load processes with a variety of data types.
What's in it for you:
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program include competitive compensation and flexible benefits, such as 401(k) program with company-matching contributions, health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and paid-time off.
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
- Opportunities to do challenging work.
- Opportunities to build close relationships with clients.
The expected salary range for this particular position is $100,000 - $170,000, depending on your experience, skills, and registration status, market conditions and business needs.
You have the potential to earn more through RBC’s discretionary variable compensation program which gives you an opportunity to increase your total compensation, provided the business meets its performance targets and you meet your individual goals.
RBC’s compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:
- Drives RBC’s high-performance culture
- Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals
- Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value
LI-POST
TECHPJ
Job Skills
Actuarial Modeling, Big Data Management, Commercial Acumen, Data Mining, Data Science, Decision Making, Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Predictive Analytics, Python (Programming Language)
Additional Job Details
Address: 250 NICOLLET MALL:MINNEAPOLIS
City: Minneapolis
Country: United States of America
Work hours/week: 40
Employment Type: Full time
Platform: WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Job Type: Regular
Pay Type: Salaried
Posted Date: 2026-08-07
Application Deadline: 2026-08-28
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
Our Employment Opportunities
At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
Join our Talent Community
Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you.
Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.
RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Data Scientist
Verify your degree field matches the role
H-1B1 visa requires a specialty occupation tied to a specific academic discipline. A Data Scientist role must map to a degree in statistics, computer science, mathematics, or a directly related field. A general business degree won't satisfy the requirement even if you've been doing data work for years.
Use OFLC Wage Search before salary negotiations
Your employer's Labor Condition Application must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for Data Scientists in that metro area. Pull the Level I through Level IV wage tiers from OFLC Wage Search before any offer conversation so you know the floor before they name a number.
Target employers already filing H-1B1 LCAs
Search Migrate Mate to identify employers with verified H-1B1 Singapore LCA filing history for data and analytics roles. These companies have already navigated the DOL certification process and don't need internal education on how the visa works.
Confirm the SOC code on your job offer
Employers assign a Standard Occupational Classification code when filing the LCA. For Data Scientist roles, insist on SOC 15-2051 rather than a broader software developer code. The wrong SOC code can create a prevailing wage mismatch that delays or complicates your consular application.
Prepare an O*NET-aligned job duties summary
Consular officers assess whether your role genuinely requires a theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge. Pull the Data Scientist occupation profile from O*NET and align your offer letter's duties language to it before your Embassy appointment in Singapore.
Time your application around two-year renewal windows
H-1B1 visa is issued in one-year increments at the consulate but your employer can request two-year validity on the LCA. Confirm your employer files for the full two-year period so you avoid annual return trips to the Embassy while you're building tenure in a data role.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Data Scientist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Singapore?
Yes. Data Scientist positions qualify because they require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as statistics, computer science, or applied mathematics. The role must genuinely require theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge. Roles where any bachelor's degree is acceptable regardless of field would not satisfy the specialty occupation standard under H-1B1 visa.
How does H-1B1 Singapore compare to H-1B for Data Scientist roles?
The H-1B1 Singapore visa has a 5,400-visa annual cap that has never been exhausted, so there's no lottery and no random selection risk. H-1B visa has an 85,000-visa cap subject to an oversubscribed lottery most years. H-1B1 is also processed at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore rather than through USCIS, which typically means a faster path to starting work once your employer's Labor Condition Application is certified by DOL.
How do I find employers who will sponsor an H-1B1 Singapore visa for a Data Scientist position?
Search Migrate Mate to find employers with active H-1B1 Singapore LCA filing history for data science and analytics roles. Many companies default to H-1B sponsorship workflows internally, so targeting employers who have already processed H-1B1 applications saves you from having to educate hiring teams or legal departments about how the visa works during the offer stage.
Can my employer sponsor H-1B1 while I'm still in Singapore before relocating?
Yes. The H-1B1 Singapore process is consular-based, meaning your employer files the Labor Condition Application with DOL and you apply for the visa stamp at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore before you travel. You don't need to already be in the United States. Once the Embassy approves your application, you enter the U.S. in H-1B1 status on your first day of work.
What documentation does a Data Scientist need for the H-1B1 consular interview?
You'll need your certified Labor Condition Application, a support letter from your employer detailing your Data Scientist duties, educational transcripts and degree certificates confirming your relevant field of study, and DS-160 confirmation. Because the specialty occupation claim rests on the degree-to-role connection, bring documentation showing how your academic background directly applies to the data science work you'll be performing.